Description:In many ways the fifth Judas Priest studio album Hell Bent For Leather, released in 1978, is the band’s definitive album. The album was produced during the period they adopted the ‘leather & studs’ style breaking new ground in heavy metal sound and image. Although gothic themes are present the album isn’t truly dark or morbid, the band is as aggressive and brutally intense as ever.

The blistering two-guitar attack and shred of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing comes with some serious attitude, and Rob Halford had established his quite unique, much lower and more menacing, vocal style. The album includes undeniable Priest classics and permanent fixtures in their lives shows such as, “The Green Manalishi” and the title track, “Hell Bent For Leather,” one of the great metal songs of all time.